Creative Home & Garden

Mid-June in Spy Garden

Blue Flax: (Linum perenne) This perennial flower was discovered on the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and hence the species was named “lewisii”. Lovely blue flowers on 24” plants, beautiful and easy to grow. (seeds/description from http://www.rareseeds.com)

A pepper already! This one is a black Hungarian (mild to medium spicy)

Feverfew

Echinacea

Carrot Blossom

Orach

We are growing two types of cucumber: Sikkam (a tan oblong variety) and Dragon’s egg (a white egg shaped type) and notice all the purslane growing wild around the cucumber plants. Purslane makes great ground cover and it is edible (lemony and crunchy!)

Marigolds, Loofah gourds, onions and love-in-a-mist flowers

Celosia

These are storebought (planted last year) but there are many native varieties of coneflowers in the parks in our area.

Prickly centers

Little onion seed heads

Facing east

Love when the mimosa blossoms fall!

Makeshift garden gate for an area of the deer fence in need or repair.

Hey, where are you going with the garden gate?! haha

Mmm good stick

Yum! Spinach always seems to do so well in pots; very easy to harvest

Pretty Lettuce

Very vibrant coneflower

Blue Dragonfly

Love-in-a-mist seed pods

It’s Tongue-y! Baby named her. The male (who we haven’t seen lately is Tongue-y II) haha

Great climber! (and great camoflauge)

Found a good spot to nap

Pitching

Hitting

Spectating (and pedicure-ing!) at the ballpark!

Sparkly shoes!

Baby-

zilla!

Hope you all are having a nice summer (or winter for my southern hemisphere friends!) and have a great weekend!

Thanks, hope your summer is going well also. It’s a busy one, and not posting as much as I’d like but the garden is growing wild! I posted a tree pic in my latest post and was hoping you would ID it for me, I’m thinking pear? Thanks for always commenting, I really do appreciate it so much!

Yes image posts are pretty quick to post which can be a good thing! I have cut WAY back on posting frequency, but that’s ok. Working on my doctorate is a good excuse! Yes, we are fortunate to have all that rain but the WEEDS! They are worse than they’ve ever been, I might have to have a weed-pulling party, Oy! They’re out of control. No magazine shoots here any time soon! ha! Oh but the plants themselves are also growing like banchees from the rain so I suppose that is a good thing!